Word: haphazard
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Skinny and animated, with a mop of brown curls, Morris is equal parts charming and helpless, for he immediately draws the audience in with his panicked anxiety and confusion about his sudden imprisonment. It seems impossible that such a charismatic and haphazard individual could pen horrific tales of child murder, or suffocate his parents with pillows at the age of 14, but Morris skillfully captures the chiaroscuro of his character’s vulnerability and violence...
...ability to successfully adapt and transform previously-unexplored styles. Newsom’s voice takes on only the slightest, airy twang so that the song recalls the style of Neko Case. But the track, which approaches ten minutes in length, goes beyond a mere regurgitation of alternative country. Haphazard slips of electric guitar and banjo accent a languid harp—which, in typical Newsom style, she fits perfectly into this country song—and as the song proceeds, dramatic harp and guitar cadences alternately build up and descend. Haunting vocal harmonies and forceful drum beats later...
...will be difficult. Greece's tax-collection system is an antiquated mess. The state's various financial-information databases are haphazard and fragmented. No single program can pull up all the data about a single taxpayer; without tedious manual cross-checks, there's no way to flag the Kolonaki doctor who is declaring a pittance but living in a multimillion-dollar apartment. So decentralized is the whole system that until recently, Greece's government didn't even know how many people it had on its payroll. (See 10 things to do in Athens...
Cardinal's somewhat haphazard acquisition strategy proved difficult to manage, though. Cardinal started as a small Ohio food distributor in 1971, and eight years later, founding CEO Robert Walter moved the company into pharmaceuticals. Over the next two decades, he transformed the firm into a $75 billion conglomerate. "It was a very entrepreneurial company, founded out of the back of this Harvard Business School guy Bob Walter's car," says Lisa Gill, a JPMorgan analyst who has covered Cardinal since 1999. "People talked about Cardinal wanting to be the GE of health care...
...tradition. It’s why Nabokov adored Tolstoy’s taut prose and thought Dostoevsky a hack. In “Laura” this compression unravels—degenerating near the end into mere personal notes (“invent tradename, e.g. cephalopium”) and haphazard lists (drawing linkages between self-dissolution and Buddhism...